VMware has announced VMware ThinApp 4.0, its major offering in the emerging market for application virtualization.
- By Tom Valovic
- June 10, 2008
The director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab Sam Ramji posted an apology on Friday for not releasing the source code for one of its open source projects.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 09, 2008
During his keynote address at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Monday, CEO Steve Jobs debuted the company's new iPhone 3G, an update to the popular mobile phone and computing device set for delivery July 11. Developers also took the stage during the keynote to show off new technologies arriving for the platform.
- By David Nagel
- June 09, 2008
Technology reporter Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft FAQ that appears to indicate Microsoft's official name for the next version of Office.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 09, 2008
A National Nuclear Security Administration supercomputer has achieved an operational rate of 1 petaflop making the Roadrunner the world's fastest computer, the agency announced today.
- By Joab Jackson and William Jackson
- June 09, 2008
Microsoft today announced the public beta release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2008
Microsoft rolled out Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2008, which is available for evaluation by developers and database administrators who want an early look at the relational database management system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 09, 2008
A pair of vulnerabilities found in several VMware Linux products will require users to update these products to resecure their systems, security analysis firm iDefense announced yesterday.
- By Joab Jackson
- June 06, 2008
Yesterday at its Tech-Ed developer conference Microsoft Corp. handed out its 2008 Window Embedded Partner awards.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 05, 2008
In a bid to modernize the embedded version of its Windows software, Microsoft this week has released the community technology preview (CTP) of a newly revamped version set to ship by year's end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 05, 2008
Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 05, 2008
Online security company MessageLabs found that more than three-quarters of the e-mail messages it scanned in May were spam, an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous month, said Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief security analyst.
- By William Jackson
- June 04, 2008
A security research firm has found multiple flaws in Web server software from Sun Microsystems that would collectively allow attackers to log on, gain root access, peruse and delete files, and execute malicious commands.
- By Joab Jackson
- June 04, 2008
Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 04, 2008
A Microsoft executive said today that Microsoft may be considering rebranding its Live search engine brand.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 03, 2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 03, 2008
A new whaling scam -- that's a phishing scam that targets big game -- using a supposed U.S. Tax Court notification as bait has reeled in about 600 victims so far, according to Internet security firm SecureWorks.
- By William Jackson
- June 03, 2008
Court documents released this week in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo assert that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's "hubris" and "deep hostility" against Microsoft are to blame for the Microsoft deal falling apart, and that Yahoo's board members should be held personally accountable for the failed deal.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 03, 2008
A majority of North American IT chiefs view theft from within as a much greater threat than theft from without, according to a new survey from Secure Computing Corp., an enterprise gateway security provider.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 03, 2008
An investigation launched Tuesday into the possible compromise of about 1,000 patient records at Walter Reed Army Medical Center serves as a stern reminder of how dangerous peer-to-peer and other social networking applications can be, security experts warn.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 03, 2008